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With a name inspired by the First Amendment, 1A explores important issues such as policy, politics, technology, and what connects us across the fissures that divide the country. The program also delves into pop culture, sports, and humor. 1A’s goal is to act as a national mirror—taking time to help America look at itself and to ask what it wants to be.

Happy Bealtane

Next Sunday is Beltane or Bealtane, the cross-quarter day between spring and summer. Once upon a time, this was actually seen as 1st day of summer for northern cultures. Shakespeare’s Mid-Summernight’s Dream takes place at the solstice, at what he called midsummer – can only be mid summer if counting starts on May 1, May Day.

Thursday is the 55th anniversary of astronaut Alan Shepard’s suborbital flight making him the first American in space. Yuri Gagarin flew on April 12th, first human in space.